Welcome to the 20th Episode of the CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X.  So this CoffeeCAST happens to coincide with Project X’s 1st Anniversary. So as you can imagine, I grabbed Graham, my co-Founder and we decided to sit down and share a view of our year in review.  We focused mainly on our Data practice and not some of our Advisory work as it was the area that we shared in common and we also only had so long.  Today we talk about: Getting started over his picnic table Working with our first client and now being to five Evolution of our Thinking Reference Architecture Guiding Principles Governance and Stewardship Readiness Rapid Results General Observations Year of Data Value vs Price Metadata Management Look to faster return on Enterprise platforms Working Data Store Active Data Warehousing Information as a Service Download cc_20_pxltd_anniversary.mp3 Today we mention a bunch of different folks and companies so I will list them here so you can learn more:  Robert Schaffer, Teradata, Sunopsis, Ipedo, Netezza, Oracle, IBM, Informatica. So I hope you have a nice coffee, we did.  Listen we hope you enjoy and more importantly, hope you join in the conversation.  So drop a comment in the blog or send me an email and share your thoughts on the topics. The Podcast is available on iTunes or here for download.  Have a great day and join the conversation.